Electric-lamp bracket.



No. 778,984. I PATENTED JAN.3,1905. I B. H. LUX.

ELECTRIC LAMP BRACKET.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 10, 1904.

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Patented January 3, 1905.

UNITED STATEs PATENT OEEIcE.

EDIVIN H. LUX, OF LOGANSPORT, INDIANA.

ELECTRIC-LAMP BRACKET.

$PECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent 1\: 0, 778.984, dated January 3, 1905.

Application filed June 10, 1904. Serial No. 211,983-

To a, whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN H. LIIx, a citizen of the United States, residing at Logansport, in the county of Cass and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Electric-Lamp Bracket, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to brackets for suspending electric lamps, and has for its object to provide a simply-constructed and easilyapplied device whereby the lamp-fixtures and insulator members for the conductor-wires are firmly supported and concealed from view by the plastering and escutcheons of the fixtures.

With these and other objects in view, which will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in certain novel features of construction, as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and in which corresponding parts are denoted by like designating characters, is illustrated the preferred form of the embodiment of the invention capable of carrying the same into practical op eration, it being understood that the invention is not necessarily limited thereto, as various changes in the shape, proportions, and general assemblage of the parts may be resorted to without departing from the principle of the invention or sacrificing any of its advantages, and the right is therefore reserved of making all the changes and modifications which fairly fall within the scope of the invention and the claims made therefor.

In the drawings thus employed, Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of the device applied. Fig. 2 is an enlarged perspective view of the bracket detached. Fig. 3 represents one of the insulators detached.

The improved device comprises a bracket having a base portion, represented as a whole at and formed with an intermediate offset 11, with the portion at one side of the offset provided with a depending stud 12, threaded spaced lateral apertures 14: 15 and with a vertically-extending wing 16.

The wing 16 and the portion of the base from which the stud 12 depends are pierced for screws 17, by which means the bracket is attached to the lower edge and one side of the joist 18. \Vhen thus arranged and attached, it will be noted that the portion of the base 10 at one side of the offset 11 which comes beneath the joist and has the stud 12 depending therefrom is entirely concealed within the lathing and plastering 19 20, while the portion of the base at the other side of the offset extends above the lathing, so that the insulators 21, which are of porcelain or other non-conductive tubes with supporting-flanges, may rest through the apertures 14 15 and be supported therein with their lower ends extending through the lath ing and plastering. By this simple means nothing shows through the ceiling but the free end of the stud 12 and the lower ends of the insulator members 21, and these, together with the conductor-wires 23 24, will be covered and concealed by the escutcheon 25 on the fixture in the ordinary manner. This makes a very simple, cheap, and strong support for the fixtures, which may be quickly attached to and detached therefrom and which will be entirely concealed when in position by the lathing and plastering.

The bracket will be of one single casting of iron, steel, malleable iron, or other metal or metallic compounds, as may be required.

Having thus described the invention, I claim-- 1. As a new article, a suspension-bracket for electric lamps comprising a base member having means for attachment to a permanent support and provided with spaced transverse apertures for the insulator members and with a threaded standard for supporting the lampfixtures.

2. As a new article, a suspension-bracket for electric lamps, comprising a base member having an intermediate offset, the portion at one at its terminal 13, and with the portion at the side of said offset for attachment to the joist opposite side of the offset provided with and provided with athreaded stud for extendside of the otfset for extending above the plaster-line and having spaced transverse apertures for receiving the insulators and a vertical wing extending from said base member for attachment to the side of the joist.

In testimony that 1 claim the foregoing as my own 1 have hereto aliixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

EDVVLN H. LUX.

W'itnesses:

JAMES B. LEMEN, ORA B. SHAEER. 

